Bent Talker (Infundibulicybe geotropa)
Systematics:- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Tricholomataceae (Tricholomaceae or Ordinary)
- Genus: Infundibulicybe
- Species: Infundibulicybe geotropa
Synonyms:
Red talker
Clithocybe bent
Clitocybe geotropa
Description:
The cap is 8-12 (20) cm in diameter, initially convex, tuberous, then depressed, funnel-shaped, often with a tubercle in the center and a thin curled edge, reddish, yellow-brown, fading to fawn, almost white, sometimes with rusty spots.
The plates are frequent, thin, descending, white, later - cream, yellowish.
Spore powder is white.
The leg is 5-10 (15) cm long and 1-3 cm in diameter, cylindrical, widened towards the base, dense, rigid, fibrous, white-pubescent at the bottom, made, one-color with a cap or lighter, brownish at the base.
The pulp is thick, dense, at the base of the leg - loose, white, later brownish, with a pungent odor.
Spread:
It grows from the first decade of July to the end of October (mass fruiting from mid-August to the end of September) grows in deciduous and mixed forests on rich (humus, chernozem) soils, or with a thick perennial leaf litter, in bright places, on the edges, in bushes, in moss, singly and in groups, rings, not uncommon
Rating:
Edible mushroom, used fresh (boiled for about 20 minutes) and pickled, you need to collect some caps at a young age, the legs are hard and not edible.